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preperformance

preperformance adjective: done or made before or in preparation for a performance.

Adjective

preperformance (not comparable)

  1. Done or made before or in preparation for a performance.
    • Next, add core ingredients: elements of live and preperformance video.2007 September 27, Alastair Macaulay, “Striking the Pose: Rock Show as Movement”, in New York Times

Noun

preperformance (countable and uncountable, plural preperformances)

  1. prior performance
    • Three youths were then taught to engage in these behaviors, which included statements of cooperation and reform. Policemen then evaluated preperformances and postperformances of the youths in simulated interactions with a policeman.1981, Sidney William Bijou, Roberto Ruíz, Behavior modification: contributions to education, page 222

Forms of preperformance

pluralpreperformances

Origin of preperformance

From pre- + performance.

Questions about preperformance

What does preperformance mean?
Preperformance means done or made before or in preparation for a performance.
What part of speech is preperformance?
Preperformance can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near preperformance in the dictionary

  1. preperceives
  2. preperceiving
  3. preperception
  4. preperceptions
  5. preperceptive
  6. preperformance
  7. preperformances
  8. preperfused
  9. preperfusion
  10. preperfusions
  11. prepericardiac

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